Talent (Recruitment) Business Partner - Publishing & Media

Based onsite at offices in Central London for 4 days per week. Able to work remotely for 1 day per week. Great new Talent (Recruitment) Business Partner opportunity with this high-profile publishing and media company. Reporting into the Head of HR, you will play an active role in helping to shape the organisation’s people agenda, ensuring it attracts, develops and retains the best talent to deliver business objectives. This is a really broad role with lots of scope to get involved with talent acquisition, employer branding, workforce planning, succession, learning and development, and organisational design. You will be liaising with stakeholders across the business, working on the full employee lifecycle and taking responsibility for talent and people processes, enhancing quality of hire, internal mobility, performance and engagement, while championing an inclusive and high-performance culture.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, lead and execute a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy aligned to business growth plans and workforce priorities with support from the Head of HR.
• Partner with senior leadership to forecast current and future hiring needs, holding proactive monthly talent planning meetings to ensure robust pipelines.
• Challenge and refine role briefs where appropriate, advising on role design, hiring priorities and alternative resourcing solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement across recruitment processes, systems and ways of working.
• Build, lead and develop the recruitment function as the business grows.
• Define, track and report on key recruitment metrics including time to hire, cost per hire, quality of hire, offer acceptance rates and diversity outcomes.
• Provide weekly recruitment updates and activity reports to the board, including maintaining and actively updating a recruitment tracking report.
• Own, manage and report on the recruitment budget, including agency spend, ensuring cost-effective hiring solutions and strong return on investment.
• Lead employer branding initiatives.
• Proactively headhunt and source candidates for both current and future roles across the business.
• Conduct initial candidate screenings and interviews to produce high-quality shortlists.
• Collaborate closely with HR to ensure a smooth onboarding experience and strong new-hire engagement.
• Own and continuously optimise recruitment systems and tools (including ATS where applicable), ensuring efficient workflows and accurate data.
• Provide HR administrative support as needed, across the employee lifecycle including onboarding, contracts, HR systems updates, benefits changes and record management.
• Use HR data and insights to identify trends in engagement, turnover, absence and benefits utilisation, informing people initiatives that strengthen employee experience, retention and organisational effectiveness.

Requirements

• Solid track record of success in an internal recruitment/ talent role (ideally within the creative/ media industries).
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Confident using a range of recruitment and HR systems.
• The ability to use data-led insights to inform decision making.

Salary - £40,000 - c£45,000 plus benefits. The client is looking to start interviews as soon as possible so please apply straight away if this sounds like you.

At Fourteen People, we are committed to offering equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age or any other protected characteristics. We understand there is still much to be done as we partner with our clients to create and improve robust recruitment processes that will improve diversity equity and inclusion in the workplace.

Fourteen People Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.